vriad_lee

Wait! I wanted to use that technique to make sculptures of nasty-looking humans. What's it called - clotted wool or something?

I especially like the coloring on the dogs.

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it's called needle-felting! it's very cool and intuitive so i say try it. there are more of her toys: http://www.fadeeva.com/

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Hahaha, "clotted wool." Needle-felting, right.

Her toys are lovely! But not in an irritating way. I like them much more than most stuffed animals.

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i made several needle-felted toys too:

http://vriad-lee.livejournal.com/230343.html

http://vriad-lee.livejournal.com/10330.html

and i sent one piglet to poemtree (i hope she keeps it under her pillow or somewhere)

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Ah! Nice piglets.

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poemtree.livejournal.com

i keep all of the things that you sent me on a small table beside my bed. oh oh and when i can't sleep i fondle them.

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yes, please fondle them

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Meow!

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Kitten.

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Here will do...

Purely by chance I stumbled on this post just now...

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2006/03/handmade_stuffe.html

:-)

Via this link...

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2006/03/gupi_robotised_.html

just in case you don't know of the almighty Gupi!

You do realise the way to that Ferrari is through roboticising Natasha's stuffed animals, don't you?

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roboticising them? well!
yes, in fact i quite realize that if there's a way to that ferrari at all, it would most probably be through natasha's toys. except, i don't need a ferrari. i don't even need a hammer! because i don't drive. btw, do you?

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Furry robots are all the rage!

And nobody needs a Ferrari. What's that got to do with it?

Yeah, I drive - a Toyota. :-) But then most everybody drives here, except for a few in the big cities, I guess. An adult only using a bus would seem a bit eccentric where I live, though probably not in the four or so biggest cities in NZ.

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so you live in the country? or in a small town? i would be happy to drive if i lived in the country, but it's a different thing totally.

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Small town. Not in this town...

http://www.airnet.net.nz/web_cam/index.htm

(where it's night at the moment - try again in 12 hours...)

but that's my locality.

I need a car for work, (both to get there and carry my tools), but generally, the car's the preferred method to get anywhere. It's no more than ten minutes into the center of town by car. Why go by any other method?

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because if you go by foot you gonna have strong, muscular legs in a matter of years. which is nice! so you have to go by car to your work, and you work as a gardener, right? i think you should learn C++ or Java and start developing your own games for the pc platform!

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Actually, my legs ain't what they used to be. Walking behind a mower all day (once a week) a few years back done nasty things to them. (Did you know a NZer without legs is about to climb Everest? 'tis true!)

I program in REBOL. What is this C++ or Java you speak of?

Actually, there's no way I'd learn Java. I hate hitting Java sites! AJAX sites are a different matter. They're almost good.

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i never heard of REBOL, is it suitable for creating pc computer games? i tried to learn C++ once, it's the language in which windows and most desktop windows applications are written. it's rather complex, and not very elegant - the say, because i really don't know anything about programming languages. java is also considered a boring, dull language by most serious programmers, i think, unlike, for example, smalltalk and perl. there was a time when i was thinking of learning some programming language, but my stumble black has always been that i don't know a single application i would like to develop. i can't think of anything!

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REBOL's suitable for CGI work (like perl) and for 2D applications, but not 3D stuff.

It's strengths are its small, runs on a host of platforms, (it's a scripting language), it's very net-friendly, it's (perhaps) easy to learn, it's very easy to create user-interfaces with and, umm, other stuff.

It's weakness is its slow rate of development (over the past few years), it's not open-source, (although there's very usable free versions), and hardly anyone knows about it, so REBOL jobs are never advertised.

Home page here: http://www.rebol.com/ and get "View" if you want to try it out.

If however it's 3D games you'd like to make, maybe Blitz is what you want? See...

http://www.blitzbasic.com/

I used to program in the 2D version of that many moons ago, (see...

http://www.hi-toro.com/shareworld/archives/programs.html

but don't try any of them - they don't run on PCs!), and I know one one of the support guys for the current version.

Ask if want more info! Not that I know much about Blitz3D, but REBOL I do know a lot about.

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no, i don't want to program anything, including games, that was my point. i thought you should, since you already have the experience et cetera. is it great fun to program things? paul graham compared programming to painting, but i don't quite believe him, somehow.

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